I just finished the scan of xx2/xm2 journals, and–deviating from my original plan–actually did full retests in most cases.
This turned out well. At the end of the scan, I have 260 remaining xm2 cases (down from 383 last year, and that doesn’t include cases that became xm2 this year) and only 20 xx2 cases–same as last year, which means new long-term problems were offset by fixed cases. Those journals account for at most a few thousand articles–perhaps 4,000.
What stands out is that Indonesia is problematic. Last year, it had a majority of xm2 journals. This year, it has 71% of all excluded xm/xm2 journals and 83% of all xm2 journals: 218 of 260.
Right now, about 1,420,000 2022 articles are accounted for (not counting excluded journals). That figure will rise after I check 864 journals that seem reasonably likely to have more articles now than they did when first checked. These are small journals: they added up to about 37,000 articles in 2021 and, so far, 15,013 in 2022. I figure three or four days to do the retests.
[Then come overall data consistency checks, firming up ISSNs, saving the master lists, adding derived data…and, eventually, the fun part.]
Feedback on planned drop of “bx” still feasible. Feedback on “diamond OA” plan STILL REALLY WANTED. It is extra work, but if it will be useful, I’ll happily do it.
Oh, and sigh, just saw another pontification on the colors of OA that says flatly that all gold OA includes fees. THIS IS NOT HELPFUL! Diamond/platinum is a subset of gold.
